Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 94 — Group of Thieves
The chief rogues were surprised by Zhou Yuan's sudden appearance, he immediately jumped back and took some distance from Zhou Yuan.
The chief rogues saw his now broken machete, feeling disbelief in what happened. Although not heirloom but the mastermind of the thief has good quality.
The chief rogues' view of Zhou Yuan turned into vigilance. One thing he thought, the young man in front of him was a swordsman.
"Who are you, what's your business coming here?" The chief thief.
"My business? I'm just someone passing by, I happen to see your actions on this village..." Zhou Yuan looked around then his gaze fell towards the villagers. "What if you set them free, maybe I'll let you live."
The chief rogues snorted, he gave instructions to his five subordinates to attack Zhou Yuan.
The five rogues advanced and swung his machete, facing that Zhou Yuan did not try to dodge, he let the machete touch his body.
Trang!
The banter that was about to injure Zhou Yuan instantly shattered into pieces upon coming into contact with his skin. Before the five rogues reacted Zhou Yuan had already dealt a blow to them.
One blow was enough to make them lose their lives, in a short time Zhou Yuan killed the five rogues.
The rogues numbered about 40 people and almost all of them were warriors who were in the Bronze Realm. Only their Chief was a Silver Realm swordsman.
With his current physical strength, it did not require a sword to defeat them.
The chief rogues gulped, he himself was not sure he could do as Zhou Yuan did. His subordinates became frightened, some of them immediately took hostage the girl they were about to bring before.
"Stop! If you want the villagers to survive, surrender and kneel down!" The chief thief shouted threateningly.
Zhou Yuan smiled sinisterly, he instead threatened the chief thief. "You can do what you want to them, but instead you have to prepare for the risk I'm going to do to you next."
"You think I'm afraid of your threats?!"
"Oh, you can try it, I'm sure your life will drift..." Zhou Yuan smiled coldly.
The chief thief bit his lips, he threatened Zhou Yuan hoping that the young man would surrender but did not expect Zhou Yuan to threaten him.
The chief rogues were not stupid, in one look Zhou Yuan's strength was far above his. The group he brought was not enough to defeat the young man.
Seeing that the rogues master seemed to not dare anymore, Zhou Yuan said to the others. "Good, if you want to survive, go now before I change my mind and kill you all."
The chief rogues clenched his teeth, feeling unacceptable with this humiliation, with a heavy heart he gave instructions to others to leave the village.
"Master, thank you for your help we can be free from their evil." The village head bowed respectfully to Zhou Yuan after the rogues had already left.
"We postpone this, for now we extinguish the fires that burn your houses."
Zhou Yuan actually wanted to kill those rogues but the situation was not right. Zhou Yuan had to attach importance to the safety of the residents above the others, he could have been chasing them now but the house that the rogues burned down was expanding to the surrounding houses.
Zhou Yuan, along with other villagers, helped extinguish the fire. It took an hour with Zhou Yuan's help to put out the fire.
"Thank you swordsman, we owe you a lot."
Zhou Yuan nodded slowly, he was currently sitting at the table with some dishes already presented in front of him. The villagers greeted him warmly.
"Hmm, by the way why they attacked your village, so it must burn like this..." Zhou Yuan had heard about the tax that the chief thief had collected.
The village chief sighed softly, he then explained about the rogues.
In short, the bandits have been coming to their village since four months ago. The bandits did not directly attack the villagers but rather extorted their property by paying taxes every week.
This village has good agriculture and plantations but not with money income. In just four months they are not able to pay the taxes raised by the thieves let alone they charge with high tariff fees.
The result was that when they did not get what they wanted, the rogues were angry and burned down the houses of the villagers as before.
"Why don't you ask the union for help?"
The village chief explained that the number of rogues Zhou Yuan had faced before was not quite as high. Their members were so many that they numbered in the hundreds.
The village chief then remembered Zhou Yuan's power which rendered the bandits helpless, and asked him for help. The villagers also think similarly.
"Calm down, I'm also part of the hero guild. I'll accept your mission..." Zhou Yuan nodded slowly before eating the food.
The village chief and the other residents were relieved, at least they could calm down with Zhou Yuan's presence in this village.
The night had come, the village chief brought Zhou Yuan to his residence so that the young man could rest there. That night Zhou Yuan chose to sleep, for three days he lay on the hard and cold ground, so longing for his soft bed.
The next day when Zhou Yuan was just cleaning up, suddenly two young men came to the Village Chief's house in a hurry.
"What's going on, what do you see exactly?" The village chief asked the two young men.
"The village chief, the bandits, they came back here in large numbers."
Zhou Yuan who heard that frowned, his plan today was that he would look for the rogues headquarters but did not expect them to come here.
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Zhou Yuan and the village chief walked out of the village gate to find the rogues had already come up with more numbers than before.
Zhou Yuan ordered the rest of the population not to interfere when confronting these thieves. Zhou Yuan was more free to face them alone.
"Young man, your strength may be high but you won't win if we all move forward. If you don't want to die, put down your weapon maybe I'll let you live!" The chief thief said loudly.
The chief rogues were so vengeful for Zhou Yuan's previous actions, he gathered all his subordinates who reached two hundred and then returned to the village to kill Zhou Yuan.
"How could you possibly know you're going to die..." Zhou Yuan chuckled, not at all afraid of the number of his opponents.
Zhou Yuan then whispered to the village chief lest anyone help him. A battle is bound to happen, there will be many bodies from this battle.
The village chief turned pale hearing that before hurriedly nodding, he then entered the village and closed the gate.
Zhou Yuan's gaze then turned again towards the rogues, his gaze turning cold.
"You don't have to threaten anymore, we'll just get it done here." Zhou Yuan drew his father's heirloom sword. "You're one-on-one or all at once, I'm ready to fight you."
The chief rogues expression became bad, he hoped that Zhou Yuan was afraid of the number of his group given his young age. Seeing Zhou Yuan still dare to fight him made the rogue Chief's susana even worse.
"You asked me to make your grave here. Everyone, attack him simultaneously!" The chief thief.
Coinciding with their chairman's shout, hundreds of rogues immediately moved to storm Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan smiled coldly, he exerted a deep energy on his navel before performing the sword technique.
"The Sword of the Five Elements — Flashes of Light!"
As the bandits were already nearby, Zhou Yuan moved quickly like lightning while slashing his enemies. Those rogues could not see Zhou Yuan's speed when suddenly their heads had already slipped out of place.
Within a blink of an eye, Zhou Yuan had already killed seven thieves nearby. Make the other rogues hesitate to move forward.
Zhou Yuan did not wait for their doubts, he immediately moved forward attacking the others.
Zhou Yuan's sword moved agilely in the face of his opponent and every time his sword swung, then there were lives that disappeared.
The chief rogues who were about to join in attacking Zhou Yuan instantly stopped his steps, in his eyes he saw Zhou Yuan so easily slaughtering his subordinates in just a single slash.
Zhou Yuan killed so quickly for almost every second he moved, within half a minute, already thirty people were killed on Zhou Yuan's sword.
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